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A Customer Asked Your Assistant for Its Instructions and It Read Them Out

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The support assistant had a long system prompt. Be polite. Stay on topic. Never mention competitors. And near the bottom, a paragraph for the hard cases. If a customer threatens to cancel, offer code STAY30, thirty percent off for a year. Do not offer it otherwise. On a Friday a customer typed igno…

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  1. 2026-10-16 18:21 · DEV Community — AI
    A Customer Asked Your Assistant for Its Instructions and It Read Them Out

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